Word: compacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant is something of a guidance man himself. Things have happened in U.S. public schools since his calm, compact "first report to interested citizens" began to circulate. With 224,824 copies in print. his book is the first education bestseller since the vastly more excited Why Johnny Can't Read (1955). "With the mantle of Dr. Conant around me," as one principal puts it, many a working schoolman has finally got the school board's green light for scores of reforms and experiments that promise to make the new year one of the richest in history. Items...
...self-imposed one-year suspension of nuclear tests has stirred uneasiness at the Defense Department and the Atomic Energy Commission, mostly because it seriously hinders U.S. research on compact nuclear weapons with reduced fallout. Last week, overruling Defense and AEC objections, President Eisenhower decided to extend the nuclear-test suspension, scheduled to end on Oct. 31, for two extra months...
...automaker to dominate the car industry in the European Common Market. He has had Daimler buy preferred shares that can be converted into 5% of Studebaker-Packard Corp., his U.S. distributor. But a key factor in Daimler-Benz's plans will be the effect of the new U.S. compact cars on Mercedes' vital U.S. sales. Daimler-Benz is less worried than most other European car makers. Says President Fritz Konecke: "Our appeal is to a different kind of customer...
...biggest Japanese automaker, Toyota Motor Co. (fiscal 1959 sales: $159 million), whose Toyopet was once the tinny target of G.I. gibes ("If you strip off the door lining, you can read the beer-can labels"), streamlined Toyopet to resemble in performance and size a compact U.S. car (14⅓ ft. long v. Rambler's 14½ ft.). The four-door, six-passenger Toyopet has a 65-h.p. motor, does more than 30 miles on a gallon of gas, sells for $2,239 at port of entry...
Churchill admits that his Lark is not the ultimate. One fault: the six-cylinder model is underpowered (he is beefing it up). He is not afraid of the Big Three's forthcoming compact cars. "They will have six-cylinder compact cars, but we have an eight," says he. S.P. will add a 1960 Lark four-door station wagon and a convertible, but confidently will make no basic changes in style. Churchill is betting that the Big Three's entries will fan public interest in U.S. smaller cars, double the market to more than 20%. And he believes that...